In a major jolt to ruling National Conference (NC) ahead of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, veteran leader and former Lok Sabha MP Mehboob Beg today quit the party and extended unconditional support to his PDP rival Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

Cindrella Balmuchu, the daughter of former Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee Chief and Rajya Sabha MP Pradeep Balmuchu, and former Minister Dulal Bhuian figure in the list of candidates for six Assembly seats in the state announced by Congress on ...

Induction of singer-turned-BJP MP Babul Supriyo in the Union Ministry will help BJP in its fight against "misrule" of Trinamool Congress before the 2016 state assembly polls, party National Secretary and its West Bengal incharge Siddharth Nath Singh ...

Controversial BJP MP Yogi Adityanath, who is one of the party's key campaigners for by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, has yet again sparked a controversy, this time with his comments that blame Muslims for communal violence in the country.

In a major set back to the Congress ahead of Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, two-time MP and former state minister Lal Singh today resigned from the party alleging senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad of interfering in the working of party's ...

Congress MP and spokesman Shashi Tharoor today told NDTV he was pleasantly surprised by the way Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted himself after the polls and that it would be churlish not to acknowledge the 63-year-old PM's efforts to reach out ...

Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, elected as an MP from Amritsar in the recent Lok Sabha polls, has decided to stay in his relative's house in the holy city where he will also set up his regular office.

Hours before the Congress' highest decision making body, its Working Committee or CWC meets today to take stock of the party's humiliating defeat in the general elections, its seniormost MP in parliament Kamal Nath called for immediate internal elect...

In Mumbai North Central, Congress MP Priya Dutt, the daughter of late actor-turned-politician Sunil Dutt, is up against BJP's Poonam Mahajan. Ms Poonam is the daughter of senior party leader Pramod Mahajan, who died after being shot by his brother in...

In Mumbai North Central, the BJP has fielded Poonam Mahajan, daughter of senior party leader Pramod Mahajan, who died after being shot by his brother in 2006. Poonam is challenging Congress MP Priya Dutt, the daughter of late actor-turned-politician ...

Campaigning for the 39 Lok Sabha sears in Tamil Nadu, which goes to polls on Thursday, got fiercer with DMK MP Kanimozhi hitting out at chief minister J Jayalalithaa for dragging her name in the 2G scam, insisting that she had no locus-standi to talk...

A nine-term MP from the BJP, Jaswant Singh was forced to contest as an independent from Barmer after he was denied a ticket by his old party. He faces Colonel Sonaram Chowdhury, a recent Congress import who pipped Mr Singh to walk away with the BJP t...

Lakshadweep Lok Sabha constituency recorded 87.05 per cent polling for the lone seat in the polls held yesterday in the Union Territory, where Congress sitting MP Hamdullah Sayeed is trying his luck for the second time.

Pawan Kumar Bansal, a four-term MP who had to resign from the Union Cabinet last year after his nephew was caught accepting a bribe for arranging a plum posting for a senior railway official, is being challenged in Chandigarh by two women with links ...

With less than a month left for campaigning to end in Amritsar, BJP's candidate Arun Jaitley is still facing one question in almost all his interactions with media - will sitting MP Navjot Singh Sidhu canvass for him?